Andrew Mayne

Andrew Mayne is the host of OpenAI's podcast, an artificial intelligence creative, educator, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author.

He's also the founder of Interdimensional, a company that helps AI labs uncover capabilities in frontier models and advises on AI deployment strategies. He previously served as OpenAI’s Science Communicator and was its first prompt engineer, contributing to GPT-3, ChatGPT, and GPT-4. Andrew swam with great white sharks in the Discovery Channel special Andrew Mayne: Ghost Diver. He is a Wall Street Journal best-selling novelist and an Edgar and Thriller Award finalist.

Andrew has been nominated for the Edgar Award for his book Black Fall and the Thriller Award for Name of the Devil and The Naturalist – an Amazon Charts best-seller that spent six weeks at the number one spot for all books on Amazon. Prior to his first publishing deal, Andrew was listed by Amazon as one of the top ten best-selling indie authors of the year. Andrew also starred in the A&E magic television series Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne.

With the support from the Johnny Carson Foundation and the James Randi Educational Foundation, Andrew created a program to use magic to teach critical thinking skills in public schools. His Wizard School segments, teaching magic and science to children, aired nationwide on Public Television.

As a creative consultant, he’s worked behind the scenes for David Copperfield, Penn & Teller, and David Blaine. He’s developed innovative magic effects that are performed around the world and even helped develop an experiment that was conducted onboard the International Space Station.

His underwater stealth suit featured in the Shark Week special, Andrew Mayne: Ghost Diver, was the result of his interest in perception and engineering. While researching great white sharks and their behavior, he developed artificial intelligence models based on sharks and used them to create a VR training simulator for shark interaction.